Variety, "I remember, it was an audition and the two of us just, like, did that first scene back to back, butt to butt, you know, just like doing the scene together, practicing it in this room.
And it was just like immediately all kind of artifice, everything just collapsed, and there’s like an intimacy that was very just, like, there.
And I think the fact that neither of us shied away from that while we were shooting as well, I think it was just like, these are two guys that are happy being intimate with each other emotionally."He even had the perfect actor in mind to play MJ.He told Entertainment Weekly, "I’ve been obsessed with Michael B.
Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better — we'd have interracial bisexuality!"She told the Independent, "It was important to me that 'bisexual' was said because I grew up in a time where it wasn't heard often."They told Insider, "There's nothing in the film to indicate that they have to be a cisgender person with a binary gender identity. ...